Abstract: To suppress such twisting of a side sill that an upper portion thereof is displaced inwardly with respect to a lower portion thereof during a lateral collision while suppressing a weight increase of the side sill, a vehicle side body structures includes: a side sill that has a closed cross-sectional space extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction; and a center pillar extending upward from the side sill. The center pillar is configured such that an upper direct upward portion located above a direct upward portion, which continues from the side sill and is located immediately above the side sill has a higher rigidity against an inward load than the direct upward portion. In the closed cross-sectional space, sections are provided in a front and/or rear portion of a center pillar arrangement region, in which the center pillar is located, in a longitudinal direction.

Abstract: To improve bending rigidity of a side sill against an inward load in a vehicle width direction during a lateral collision while suppressing a weight increase of the side sill, a vehicle side body structure includes: a side sill; a wheel house, a front lower portion; a center pillar; and a door formed to be opened at a position above the side sill and behind the center pillar. A rear portion of an impact bar provided to the door overlaps the rear portion of the side sill in side view when the door is closed. The side sill includes a reinforcing member reinforcing bending rigidity against an inward load. The side sill reinforcing member is provided in an intermediate portion of the side sill where the center pillar is located and the rear portion of the side sill in a longitudinal direction of the side sill.

Abstract: In an upper vehicle-body structure including: a roof side rail disposed at an upper and vehicle-width-direction outer side portion of the vehicle and including a closed cross-section extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; a pillar extending downward from an intermediate portion in the vehicle front-rear direction of the roof side rail; and a roof rail reinforcement disposed inside the intermediate portion in the vehicle front-rear direction of the roof side rail and extending in the front-rear direction, the roof rail reinforcement including front and rear ends bent toward a vehicle-width-direction outer side, the roof rail reinforcement being configured to partition a space inside the intermediate portion of the roof side rail in the vehicle front-rear direction and a vehicle width direction, the roof side rail includes a roof rail outer and a roof rail inner defining, jointly with the roof rail outer, a closed cross-section, the pillar includes a pillar outer and a pillar inner defining, jointly with

Abstract: To reduce the amount of intrusion into the vehicle interior at the time of a side collision and achieve weight reduction, a vehicle side body structure includes a pillar member that partitions a side part opening of a body into a front part and a rear part, and the pillar member includes an upper member made of high-tensile steel and a lower member joined to the upper member, made of high-tensile steel, and having a rigidity lower than the upper member. The upper member has a reinforcing member made of high-tensile steel with a tensile strength higher than the upper member and the lower member and the lower half of the reinforcing member are shaped to have a lower bending rigidity against bending toward the inside in the vehicle width direction, toward the lower end of the reinforcing member.

Abstract: An upper vehicle-body structure includes: a roof side rail, the roof side rail including a closed cross-section; a pillar extending downward from an intermediate portion of the roof side rail; and a roof rail reinforcement disposed inside the roof side rail at the intermediate portion, the roof rail reinforcement including one or more first bonding members and one or more second bonding members for coupling of a portion of the roof rail reinforcement to the roof rail, the one or more first bonding members being disposed respectively near the front and rear ends of the roof rail reinforcement and having a vibration damping function and the one or more second bonding members being disposed at an intermediate portion between the front and rear ends of the roof rail reinforcement and having a higher damping property than the one or more first bonding members.

Abstract: A vehicle side body structure having a pillar member including an upper member and a lower member that is joined to the upper member and has a rigidity lower than the upper member, the pillar member partitioning a side part opening of a body into a front part and a rear part; a side door disposed adjacently to the pillar member; and an impact bar provided in the side door, in which a front end portion of the impact bar overlaps with both the upper and lower members in side view while the side door is closed. The upper member has a reinforcing member and the front end portion of the impact bar covers a region of the upper member in which the reinforcing member is present, a region of the upper member in which the reinforcing member is not present, and the lower member in side view.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a vehicle body member from a joined sheet. The joined sheet is press formed into a vehicle body member with a predetermined shape by: welding a second sheet material to a first sheet material at a plurality of points including a first joint and a second joint separated from each other; press forming the joined sheet so that a ridge crossing an imaginary line segment connecting the first joint and the second joint is formed in a portion where the first sheet material overlaps the second sheet material; and before the joining step, forming a displacement facilitating portion, which facilitates displacement of the second sheet material relative to the first sheet material in a longitudinal direction of the imaginary line segment, in a portion corresponding to between the first joint and the second joint in the second sheet material.

Abstract: An object is to provide a novel organophosphorus compound which can impart flame retardancy to an amorphous resin in a smaller addition amount without deteriorating heat resistance and transparency, and also can be applied to a wide range of resins, a flame retardant containing the same, and a method for producing an organophosphorus compound.

Abstract: In a side vehicle body structure for a vehicle, a reinforcing panel includes: a main reinforcing portion disposed so as to extend in a longitudinal direction of a side face portion along a first straight portion, a second straight portion, and a portion of a body panel which connects the first straight portion and the second straight portion; a first upper-end reinforcing portion disposed so as to extend upward toward the front of a vehicle body from an upper edge of the main reinforcing portion along a first curved portion; and a second upper-end reinforcing portion disposed so as to extend upward toward the rear of the vehicle body from the upper edge of the main reinforcing portion along a second curved portion.

Abstract: Provided is a structure for a front part of a vehicle, including a vehicle main body, a pair of suspension support portions, and a cowl member connected to the pair of suspension support portions. The cowl member has: an inner part connection portion which has a shape extending continuously in a vehicle width direction between the pair of suspension support portions and which interconnects respective inner parts of the pair of suspension support portions in the vehicle width direction; and a water drain portion which is provided backward of the inner part connection portion in a front-rear direction of the vehicle and drains water toward a side part of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction. The inner part connection portion has a thickness larger than a thickness of the water drain portion.

Abstract: In a side vehicle body structure for a vehicle, a reinforcing panel includes: a main reinforcing portion disposed so as to extend in a longitudinal direction of a side face portion along a first straight portion, a second straight portion, and a portion of a body panel which connects the first straight portion and the second straight portion; a first upper-end reinforcing portion disposed so as to extend upward toward the front of a vehicle body from an upper edge of the main reinforcing portion along a first curved portion; and a second upper-end reinforcing portion disposed so as to extend upward toward the rear of the vehicle body from the upper edge of the main reinforcing portion along a second curved portion.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a vehicle body member from a joined sheet. The joined sheet is press formed into a vehicle body member with a predetermined shape by: welding a second sheet material to a first sheet material at a plurality of points including a first joint and a second joint separated from each other; press forming the joined sheet so that a ridge crossing an imaginary line segment connecting the first joint and the second joint is formed in a portion where the first sheet material overlaps the second sheet material; and before the joining step, forming a displacement facilitating portion, which facilitates displacement of the second sheet material relative to the first sheet material in a longitudinal direction of the imaginary line segment, in a portion corresponding to between the first joint and the second joint in the second sheet material.

Abstract: An instrument panel which is supported at a cowl panel at a front-side portion thereof is provided. The cowl panel includes an upper face wall which faces to a windshield from below, a bending portion which is formed at a rear end of the upper face wall and bendable in a vehicle collision, and a rear face wall which extends downward from the bending portion and has a lower portion connecting to a dash panel. The instrument panel includes a first restriction portion to restrict a downward move of the instrument panel by contacting the upper face wall of the cowl member, and a second restriction portion to restrict an upward move of the instrument panel by said rear face wall of the cowl member at a lower portion of the front-side portion thereof.

Abstract: When receiving a signal from the antenna #1 (initially receiving a signal from an omnidirectional antenna), a guard interval correlator 12 calculates correlation of a guard interval portion of the received signal and an output measuring unit 13 measures a peak output of the guard interval correlator 12. A comparator 14 compares the peak output measured by the output measuring unit 13 with a preset threshold, and when the peak output falls below the preset threshold and outputs an antenna switching control signal to an antenna switch 11, and the antenna switch 11 switches to the antenna #2 having a different directivity.

Abstract: When receiving a signal from the antenna #1 (initially receiving a signal from an omnidirectional antenna), a guard interval correlator 12 calculates correlation of a guard interval portion of the received signal and an output measuring unit 13 measures a peak output of the guard interval correlator 12. A comparator 14 compares the peak output measured by the output measuring unit 13 with a preset threshold, and when the peak output falls below the preset threshold and outputs an antenna switching control signal to an antenna switch 11, and the antenna switch 11 switches to the antenna #2 having a different directivity.

Abstract: A method for surface treating a substrate includes supplying first plasma generated by using nitrogen gas and oxygen gas toward a substrate surface to surface treat the substrate surface in air. In the method, a volume ratio of the oxygen gas to a total supply of the nitrogen gas and the oxygen gas is smaller than a volume ratio of oxygen contained in air.

Abstract: Provided is a method for quantitatively measuring an antigen having diverse phenotypes with accuracy in immunoassay. The present invention is particularly intended to latex turbidimetric immunoassay using the antigen-antibody reaction of an antigen having phenotypes, wherein, in detection utilizing the immunoassay, the amount of an antibody against the antigen added to an assay system is adjusted and a basic amino acid is added to the assay system, thereby circumventing the variability of a measurement value attributable to phenotype variety and obtaining a measurement value having a high correlation with a measurement value of the antigen in a biological sample that is measured on a molecular basis.

Abstract: A control device of a three-phase alternating current motor-generator, which works as an inverter circuit for driving the motor-generator as a motor by using a battery and also functions as a three-phase rectifier circuit for driving the motor-generator as a generator for producing output power for charging a battery. The control circuit uses MOS field-effect transistors as control elements for respective phases. When the motor-generator is driven as the three-phase ac generator, the control device uses means for conducting synchronous rectification by using MOSFETs only on the negative potential side for respective phases. This can simplify the rectifying operation, reduce the rectification loss and improve the battery charging efficiency.

Abstract: For a control circuit of a three-phase alternating current motor-generator, which serves as a three-phase rectifier circuit for charging a battery with power generated by driving the motor-generator as a generator and which also serves as a three-phase inverter circuit for driving the motor-generator as a motor by using a battery and uses MOSFETs as control elements for each of three phases, a control device is provided, which, in case of driving the motor-generator as the three-phase ac generator, uses means for making synchronous rectification by using MOSFETs only on the negative potential side of respective phases and means for delaying and advancing an electric angle of the current carrying control timing by gate control of MOSFETs on negative potential side.

Abstract: An outer rotor type split stator core which can be simply assembled at one time of core elements arranged in a circular form and possesses high rigidity, wherein core elements divided into magnetic pole units composed of yokes, a magnetic pole and a claw are coupled shiftably with one another in a specified range in the circumferential direction at yokes each provided with a downward projecting arm formed on one side thereof and an upward projecting arm formed on the other side thereof by engaging opposing projecting arms in neighboring core elements.